scrooge

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Dulcie Rogers

Cards (14)

  • SCROOGE
    cold-hearted
    "external heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge"
    links - apathy, detached
  • SCROOGE
    Superior
    "Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding"
  • SCROOGE
    Miserly
    "covetous old sinner"
    links - greedy for material goods and goes against the word of god
  • SCROOGE
    Anti-social
    "solitary as an oyster"
  • SCROOGE
    Uncharitable
    "I can't afford to make idle people merry"
    links - thinks poor people are lazy
  • SCROOGE
    Lonely
    "a solitary child, neglected by his friends"
  • SCROOGE
    Cruel
    "they had better get on and do it [die] and decrease the surplus population"
    "are there no prisons? are there no workhouses?"
    links - scrooge thinks this is where the poor belong
  • SCROOGE
    Avaricious (=has extreme greed for wealth)
    "another idol has displaced me. A golden one"
  • SCROOGE
    Hates recollection of past
    "show me no more"
    "he seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head"
    links - wishes to escape the memories
  • SCROOGE
    Transformed/reformed
    "I hope to be another man from what I was"
    "Scrooge was better than his word"
  • SCROOGE
    Grateful
    " I [...] do it with a thankful heart"
  • SCROOGE
    Regretful
    when he recollects the boy singing xmas carols at his door last night he says he would have "liked to have given him something"
  • Stave 5 (the end FINALLY)
    Scrooge's transformation
    • delighted @ 2nd chance: "i am as light as a feather, i am as happy as an angel"
    • buys prize turkey and sends it to cratchits
    • gives money to charity collectors: "a great many back-payments are included in it"
    • "I have come to dinner. will you let me in, fred?"
    • "i am about to raise your salary!"
    • "scrooge was better than his word. he did it all, an infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father"
  • SCROOGE
    "i will honour xmas in my heart, and try to keep it there all the year. i will not shut out the lessons that they teach"